Improvement in neck-tie retainers



Patented Aug. 31, 1875..

254% I a /l G.BURNHAM,JL

Necktie-Retainer.

Nb.l67,300.

N- PETERS. PHOTO-UTHGGRAPHER, WASHINGTON. D. C.

GEORGE BURNHAM, JR, OF YARDLEYVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN NECK-TIE RETAINERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 167,300, dated August 31, 1875; application filed June 28, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE BURNHAM, J r., of Yardleyville, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, have invented an Improved Neck-Tie Retainer, of which the following is a specification:

The object of my invention is to retain a neck-tie in its proper position in respect to a shirt-collar; and this object I attain in the manner which I will now proceed to describe, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure 1 is a vertical section (drawn to an enlarged -=cale) of the rear portion of a folded collar with my retaining-clamp, and Fig. 2 a perspective view of the clamp. Fig. 3 shows blank from which clamp is out.

A is the collar; at, its inside fold, and to its outer fold. B is the clip, which, in the present instance, is composed of a single strip of metal bent to the form shown in Fig. 2, and thus converted into a spring-clip having two elastic leaves, I) b, for griping the fold a of the collar. A portion of the clip being cut, and the partly-severed portion h turned up, so as to form an elastic tongue, h, the clip is adjusted to the collar, as shown in Fig. 1, the fold a of the collar being seized by the spring-leaves, and the neck-tie D is lodged in the tongue, which thus retains the said tie in its proper position in relation to the collar.

Then the neck-tie has to be worn on the outside of the collar the clip may be attached to the outer fold a of the same. The mode of attaching it to a collar-consisting of a single thickness of fabric will be readily understood without explanation.

The clip can be made of wire bent to the desired form, or of more than one strip of metal; but I prefer to make it of a single strip,

in the manner shown in Fig. 3-, the strip being GEORGE BURNHAM, JR.

Witnesses WM. R. GERHART, WM. P. LOVETT. 

